Fire was an artificial space trade city in the Aakaash system, orbiting the planets Land and Wind with an orbit shaped like the number "8." The city served as an important link between Land, the Aakaash system's political center, and Wind, the system's economic center. A humble space station in its earliest days, Fire grew into a massive structure with a permanent population numbering in the millions after two thousand years of expansion. Most of the Aakaash system's small alien population, including species such as Anacondans and Mon Calamari, could be found on the space station city alongside a large populace of humans. Around 200 BBY President Chen Yao was in charge of the station's trade city.^[1]

In 200 BBY, towards the end of the High Republic Era, the Knights of Silver Dawn brought a shipment of enigmatic tenebrae to Fire from Land, intending to transport it to Wind to be used to supply the new biological water-purifying equipment there. However, with the assistance of Fire's station manager, Zhang Jincheng, the enigmatic tenebrae was stolen by the Jade Rats, a group of thieves who have been stealing from Fire in the past few months, and later sold to the Blue Dragon, the most powerful pirate gang in the system. Intent on reclaiming their property, the Knights' pursuit of the enigmatic tenebrae brought their elite red apricot squad to Fire, where the squad attacked the Jade Rats and took a tracking device leading to the Blue Dragon in the nearby Lake asteroid field. While the Knights were manipulated into attacking the Blue Dragon by Zhang Jincheng, who sought to become the president of Fire by ridding the Aakaash system of the Blue Dragon, red apricot team decided to continue with their mission after the enigmatic tenebrae before placing the blame of the recent misfortunes surrounding Fire on Zhang.

Description[]

An important component of the Outer Rim's Aakaash system, Fire grew from but a humble space station in its earliest days^[1] around 2200 BBY^[3] into a city with millions of permanent residents by^[1] 200 BBY.^[3] A space city of trade situated between the planets Land and Wind, respectively the political and economic centers of the Aakaash system, Fire had throughout its two thousand years of existence formed an important and indispensable transit link between the two large planets, the gravitational fields of which gave the Fire station an orbit shaped like the number "8." Because it was a wholly artificial construct encompassing an entire large city, the station's reputation to the wider galaxy^[1] in 200 BBY^[3] sometimes exceeded even that of the system's capital, Land.^[1]

With new modules having been installed upon it throughout the course of its existence, Fire had become a massive spaceport by^[1] 200 BBY,^[3] with starships from every part of the Aakaash system arriving or departing its ports district at almost every moment. Shaped like a spindle with two sharp ends and a plump center, Fire's appearance was like that of a human eye. The space city's center was hollow, leaving space for the famous city core, Irregular, a round silver sphere that was the epitome of the Aakaash system's technological and insutrial brilliance. Within Irregular were thirty two hypermatter reactors that provided a nearly inexhaustible power source for the space city, lending the latter its name as a nightless city, shining a spark of light against the deep darkness of space. Irregular also contained the gravitational field that covered the whole of the city, providing a suitable gravitational environment for people to take up residence aboard the station. The station's Heavenly enigma Ward was the most prosperous and the location of the Heavenly Enigma Jade House, a tower in excess of 500 meters tall with over 150 floors wherein the station's most important financial institutions as well as branch offices of the major corporations of Land and Wind were located. The top 10 floors were the dedicated offices and living space of the station manager.^[1]

History[]

In 200 BBY,^[3] towards the end of the High Republic Era,^[4] Fire was plagued by the Jade Rats, a group of thieves. Fire was also threatened by the Blue Dragon, the most powerful paramilitary force in the Aakaash system.^[1]

The Knights of Silver Dawn lost a shipment of enigmatic tenebrae, a deadly biological hazard to be used as the core raw material of a new biological water-purifying equipment on Wind. The Knights' red apricot squad was thus sent to retrieve the lost shipment. The squad visited Fire, where they defeated the Jade Rats and traced the enigmatic tenebrae to the Blue Dragon. The Knights also discover that the Blue Dragon pirates had been allowed to take the biological hazard by Fire's station masters. While the squad realizes that they have been manipulated by the ambitious manager of the station to attempt to bring down the Blue Dragon pirates, Sean, secretly a Jedi Padawan who was investigating corruption in the Aakaash system and the latest member of the squad, boosted red apricot squad's morale by suggesting that they place the blame of recent misfortunes on the manager after raiding the Dragon. Seeing that the Blue Dragon was affiliated with the star system's corrupt authorities through the contact Zhang Níngtao, an official of Security Bureau, Captain An Ping led his red apricot squad in an attempt to capture the official and ransom him to the Dragon for the return of the enigmatic tenebrae, taking the red apricot to the nearby Lake asteroid field, where Zhang Níngtao was located.^[1]

Behind the Scenes[]

In the original Chinese, Fire was called 离 (Pinyin: lí) meaning "fire" and associated with the I Ching trigram ☲.

Appearances[]

• The Vow of Silver Dawn (First appearance)

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